Taylor Swift and Kanye West share top billing on ‘Billboard’ year-end charts

Kanye West and Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards (photo: Jason DeCrow/Associated Press)

Finally, a headline that pairs Kanye West and Taylor Swift with a positive slant: Music industry pub Billboard released the top acts of its year-end charts, and country voice Swift and hip-hop rabble-rouser West share lead billing as top female and male artist of the year, respectively.

Anyhow, Swift's domination should come as little surprise to anyone who's been even momentarily conscious in 2009, since she's won just about anyawardavailable to a country or pop singer, hosted Saturday Night Live and moved some 4.5 million copies of her sophomore set, Fearless.

Billboard will share the full rundown of 2009's chart-toppers on Friday (along with the decade's biggest achievers), but check out the start here.